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Following a round of budget workshops, Quincy city commissioners were ready to pass the budget on first reading Sept. 16 but not before an extensive discussion on how and when city employees would receive a one-time bonus.

Jack McLean, city manager, initially requested a 2.25 percent bonus for all employees to be given in January 2010 at a cost of $174,000. He also requested that the city pick up the taxes, which would total approximately $48,000.

Millie Forehand has always wanted to make a difference. Sometimes people liked it and sometimes they didn't but that never stopped her from trying. In 1995, she was unhappy with the way things were going in her neighborhood in the city of Quincy and she set out to make a difference by running for office. In 1997, she was elected mayor and served 1 year. The following year she was defeated.

A recent White House report stated that from 30 percent to half of the country’s population could contract the H1N1 Swine Flu, and between 30,000 and 90,000 people could die during this year’s cold and flu season. That’s in addition to the more than 30,000 that die each year from regular flu viruses.

In the months since Swine Flu first began to make headlines, more than 1 million Americans have become sick with the virus, and more than 500 have died. Worldwide, it has killed nearly 2,000.

One Quincy man has died and another is in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in critical condition after the 1947 Piper Cub airplane they were riding in crashed shortly after take-off from the Quincy-Gadsden Airport around 3:30 p.m Monday afternoon.

Richard Brewer, the 64-year-old pilot, died around 6:50 p.m. at the hospital and passenger Justin Placilla was in the Intensive Care Unit Tuesday morning. There was no further information available on his condition.

James Edward Seymour, 54, of Quincy, was killed Monday night as he crossed the street near the intersection of West Jefferson and Key streets. Kenneth Nealy, 26, was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death.

The incident occurred shortly after 8 p.m. Nealy returned to the scene about an hour later and talked with city of Quincy police officers and the Florida Highway Patrol before he was taken into custody. The investigation is continuing and no further information was available.

I have a lot of relatives and this weekend most of them came to town. We had a great time together as usual. We are good company for each other and I don't ever remember, as adults, any of us having a serious argument. Of course, we disagree like most people but it never escalates into yelling and holding grudges. I have to admit, I have a cool family.

Another summer is winding down, and I still haven’t gone fishing. How I long to be sitting in a rowboat on some quiet lake at dusk with my spinning gear and old Jitterbug. To listen to the “glub,” “glub," “glub” of that surface lure waiting for a largemouth bass to break the otherwise stillness of the lake when he charged it.

It was the morning after Bobby Kennedy’s assassination when my brother Ken and I went fishing for the last time. We fished at Lake Mashapaug in northeastern Connecticut that morning.